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Do the speckeled, Mad Giant and tri-colored hongoses have hoods?
I have never seen a picture of it.

Rudy
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1.0 Durango Mountain Kingsnake
1.1 Woma's (new!)
Spadefoot
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Florida Redbellied Slider
Western Painted
Southern Painted
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2 Plecos
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1 Khuli Loach
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1 Upside Down Catfish
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uhh... I think that is it.

I have an adult pair of Madagascar Speckeled Hogs and they do not flatten their heads as much as their American counterparts at least mine don't although when they decide to hiss you can here it across the room. its pretty loud.
Take it e-z
Greg

Hi mate

The reason for the difference in behavious is that the American hognosed and Madagascar hognosed are utterly unrelated. As discussed in the thread just below this, Heterodon species are in the Xenodontinae snake family. Leioheterodon (and all other Madagascar 'colubrids' in fact) are in the Pseudoxyrhophiinae family and are actually 'protoelapids' in that they form a branch on the Colubroidea snake evolution tree just below the Elapidae family. Even more suprising, their nearest neighbors include the very weird Atractaspidae family (with the trippy side opening fangs). The Psammophiinae family (Psammophis, Malpolon, etc) is also 'protoelapid' in this regard and are the other closet branch to the Madagascar snakes.

Cheers
B
Colubroidea snake evolution